Every single Democrat running for state office should immediately and whole-heartedly endorse the people’s veto, and promote ‘NO on 307’! Secretary of State Katie Hobbs haw certified that the Invest in Education’s Referendum of SB 1828 has qualified for the ballot as Prop 307 on the 2022 ballot. You will recall that Arizona voters passed … Read more
Just like Hitler Youth back in the day. Update to The MAGA/QAnon Cult Turns to Book Banning – Can Book Burning Be Far Behind? Asked and answered. The Washington Post reports, ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) attacked Terry McAuliffe … Read more
Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more
Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 (declaring state-sanctioned segregation of the races unconstitutional and ordering desegregation of public schools), the white supremacists have used various scare words to resist desegregation and to unleash an attack on the American public school system. At first they said school desegregation would lead to miscegenation and the … Read more
I remember when I was preparing to become a history teacher and I had to take out student loans and work a second job because there was no compensation for my internship and student teaching experience. That is a situation virtually all Arizona educators struggle with when preparing to enter the classroom. Until perhaps now. … Read more